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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Instead, they can lean into the uniquely human elements of their job in ways that require emotional and contextual assessment and insight that technology cannot replicate. We’ve seen this same scenario play out with other technological leaps forward, time and time again. Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression?

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? In the Bronx, co-op organizers have partnered with public school teachers to develop a curriculum where high school students “learn by doing.” 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient. 49 There are many examples of this.